? Control Cloudflare Infrastructure Using AI + MCP (with Python Example)

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Introduction


Cloudflare recently launched 13 remote MCP servers—a massive leap toward making AI not just smart, but actually useful in real-world infrastructure management.

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In this post, I’ll show you:

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  What MCP (Model Context Protocol) is.
  
  
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  What Cloudflare is doing with it.
  
  
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  How you can interact with your Cloudflare infrastructure via Python and MCP.
  
  
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  A practical example to fetch DNS records for a domain.
  

? What is MCP?


MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an emerging standard that allows LLMs (like Claude or ChatGPT) to interact with external tools in a structured and secure way.

Think: ChatGPT that can talk to your database, cloud, GitHub, or even smart home devices—with permission.

Cloudflare’s MCP servers expose core services (like DNS, WAF, analytics, Workers) as AI-accessible APIs that tools like Claude, Cursor, or your own Python scripts can call.

What Cloudflare Offers via MCP

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Cloudflare’s MCP endpoints currently support:

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  DNS records
  
  
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  Workers deployment
  
  
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  Security rules (like WAF)
  
  
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  Analytics
  
  
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  Load balancer configs
  
  
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  Firewall rules
  
  
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  Bot management
  
  
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  Cache purging
  

Example: List DNS Records via Python


Let’s say you want to list all DNS records for your domain using Cloudflare’s MCP server.

Prerequisites:

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  Python 3.8+
  
  
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  Cloudflare account + API Token with Zone:Read
  
  
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  requests library (pip install requests)
  

import requests

MCP_ENDPOINT = "

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API_TOKEN = "your_cloudflare_api_token_here"
ZONE_ID = "your_zone_id_here"

def get_dns_records():
headers = {
"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_TOKEN}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.get(
f"{MCP_ENDPOINT}/zones/{ZONE_ID}/dns_records",
headers=headers
)

if response.status_code == 200:
records = response.json().get("result", [])
print("DNS Records:")
for r in records:
print(f"{r['type']} {r['name']} -> {r['content']}")
else:
print("Error:", response.status_code, response.text)

get_dns_records()
? Why This Matters


We’ve seen AI generate code. But now, it can execute real infrastructure tasks safely:

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  AI can configure security rules.
  
  
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  AI can deploy edge functions.
  
  
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  AI can monitor traffic and anomalies.
  

It’s the missing bridge between intelligence and action—and Cloudflare’s MCP support is one of the first real implementations.

Conclusion


The combination of Cloudflare + MCP is opening new doors for A*I-assisted DevOps, security, and automation.*

I’m excited to see what’s next. Imagine saying:

"Hey Claude, redirect /login to /auth and purge the cache for /checkout."

…and watching it just happen—securely, reproducibly, and fast.

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